lib3ds

2.0

Introduction

lib3ds is an overall software library for managing 3D-Studio Release 3 and 4 ".3DS" files. It is a free alternative to Autodesk's 3DS File Toolkit for managing 3DS files. It started out in 1996 to be released in 1999 under the GNU General Public License (GPL) as Open-Source software. In 2000, the library was completely rewritten in ANSI-C to attain more hardware platform independence. To enable commercial application the license was changed to GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL).

Features

• Written in portable ANSI-C
• Supported platforms:
  • GNU build tools (autoconf, automake, libtool)
    • UNIX
    • Mac OS X
  • Microsoft Visual C++ 8.0
• Supports little and big endian CPUs
• Load and save:
  • Atmosphere settings
  • Background settings
  • Shadow map settings
  • Viewport setting
  • Materials
  • Cameras
  • Lights
  • Meshes
  • Hierarchy
  • Keyframes
• Evaluation of all animation (keyframing) data
• Simple easy to manipulate data structures
  • Vector mathematics module
  • Quaternion mathematics module
  • Matrix mathematics module
• Integrates seamless with OpenGL

License

Copyright (C) 1996-2008 by Jan Eric Kyprianidis <www.kyprianidis.com>.
All rights reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.

Links

• Mailing List: [Developer]
• Bugs
• Patches
• Sourceforge.NET project page
• SVN